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The Oxford Shakespeare: The History of King Lear (Oxford World's Classics)

The Oxford Shakespeare: The History of King Lear (Oxford World's Classics)

by WilliamShakespeare (Author), StanleyWells (Editor)

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    Paperback 2001

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Synopsis

The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers - a new, modern-spelling text, based on the Quarto text of 1608 - on-page commentary and notes explain meaning, staging, allusions and much else - detailed introduction considers composition, sources, performances and changing critical attitudes to the play - illustrated with production photographs and related art - includes 'The Ballad of King Lear' and related offshoots - full index to introduction and commentary - durable sewn binding for lasting use 'not simply a better text but a new conception of Shakespeare. This is a major achievement of twentieth-century scholarship.' Times Literary Supplement

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 336
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Published: 04 Jan 2001
ISBN 10: 0192839926
ISBN 13: 9780192839923

Author Bio

Stanley Wells ran the Oxford Shakespeare Dept. within OUP for the years in which the Complete Works were in preparation; and he is the general editor of The Oxford Shakespeare/Oxford World's Classics Shakespeare series in which the present volume appears. He is also co-general editor of the new Oxford Shakespeare Topics series. Formerly Director of the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, he is now Chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford-upon-Avon, and Professor Emeritus in the University of Birmingham.
Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor were the general editors of the Oxford Complete Works of Shakespeare.
Gary Taylor [WHOSE TEXT WAS USED, WITH SOME MODIFICATIONS, FOR THE PRESENT EDITION] is co-general-editor of the forthcoming Oxford Thomas Middleton edition.